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Making IP.Board more efficient

Posted by bfarber, in 3.2.x, Beta 13 October 2011 - * * * * * · 932 views

As part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the best community software on the market, we routinely run IP.Board through various tools designed to measure efficiency and resource usage, helping us to identify areas that could benefit from minor and major refactoring to make the software more efficient. We do this periodically with all of our software in...


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Dev Update: Addon Applications

Posted by bfarber, in Calendar, 3.2.x, IP.Nexus, IP.Content 16 September 2011 - * * * * - · 664 views

Since the release of IP.Board 3.2 (and our addon application updates), we have been hard at work resolving issues reported to us in order to deliver the most stable and secure community software available on the net. We are very proud of our latest releases, yet we are still working hard to deal with any issues that affect you, our customers. Before we...


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Development Update: IP.Board 3.2.3

Posted by Matt, in 3.2.x 14 September 2011 - * * * * * · 2,109 views

Since the release of IP.Board 3.2 a few months ago, our immediate focus has been on fixing the bugs that have been reported and making fairly frequent releases to our customers. We're thrilled that IP.Board 3.2 has been a huge success and we've received a lot of feedback which we've enjoyed reading.

Now that the initial wave of bug fixes have been made,...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 - Visual Skin Editor

Posted by Matt, in Beta, 3.2.x 21 June 2011 - * * * * * · 7,404 views

Since the very first release of IP.Board, those with a working knowledge of HTML and CSS have been able to alter the look and feel of the board to better match their site.

Over the years, we've made many improvements to the skinning system. For 3.2 alone we've added...


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IP.Board 3.2.0: Facebook, Twitter and Mobile Updates

Posted by Matt, in 3.2.x, Beta 02 June 2011 - * * * * * · 1,600 views

IP.Board was one of the first boards to recognise the importance of attracting visitors via popular social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

We have matured this integration over the past few years and IP.Board 3.2.0 offers several new enhancements. Firstly, the pop-up dialogs have undergone a facelift to make them easier to use and easier...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 Dev Update: Editor Updates

Posted by Matt, in Beta, 3.2.x 09 May 2011 - * * * * * · 1,412 views

Long before we threw the doors open to our IP.Board 3.2.0 preview board, we blogged about our new text editor. We reasoned that maintaining our own in-house post editor was becoming more time intensive due to the speed at which new versions of all the...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 Dev Update: Following Content

Posted by bfarber, in Beta, 3.2.x 27 April 2011 - * * * * * · 663 views

It is important that members be able to follow content that they are interested in within your community. This allows members to keep track of topics of interest, increasing the likelihood they will return to your site, especially when those topics are active and new content is added to them. It is equally important that following such topics is as easy...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 Dev Update: UserCP and Misc. Interface Updates

Posted by Matt, in Beta, 3.2.x 20 April 2011 - - - - - - · 1,725 views

One of our main goals for IP.Board 3.2.0 was to revamp certain areas of the interface to make it easier to interact with the board. We also wanted to put controls at your fingertips rather than make you root through pages of settings. This blog outlines some of these changes.

User Control Panel
In many ways the user control panel follows the old...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 Dev Update: Some VNC and User Content Improvements

Posted by bfarber, in 3.2.x, Beta 18 April 2011 - * * * * * · 1,239 views

The "View New Content" (commonly abbreviated to "VNC" on this community) and "My Content" search routines are important tools for most communities using IP.Board. While we have made improvements to these tools in 3.2 to improve both the reliability of both features, and the interface, we wanted to spend a little time enhancing...


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IP.Board 3.2.0 Dev Update: Minor Translation Improvements

Posted by bfarber, in Beta, 3.2.x 11 April 2011 - * * * * * · 939 views

With each release of IP.Board we try to give attention to every area of the software that our customers care about. This is a challenge, of course, because all of our customers have different needs and priorities. Some users want us to make interface improvements, while some customers want us to make it easier for them to edit the interface themselves. ...






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